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Sean Darby, a local Ann Arbor artist, wanted to turn his various relief sculptures into 3D images for his senior presentation to emphasize the depth of his color reliefs. Lab manager Eric Maslowski scanned Sean’s relief sculptures with the Handy Scan, then extracted accurate depth information to generate stereo pairs. This method was fairly time …

These beautiful little owls were modeled using Maya and ZBrush by James Allen as a gift to his girlfriend. They were printed with the Z-510 RP machine. By using 3D technology, Allen could sculpt one model digitally and color it five times, rather than sculpting five distinct physical models.

A full scale wax casting of Bo Schembechler was created by artist John Thomas for the three-year anniversary of Schembechler’s death. The sculpture was then scanned with the 3D laser scanner, turned into a wireframe model, and printed in plaster with the 3D printer at a smaller scale. This plaster model was then used …

U-Bin Li used Maya and ZBrush to sculpt his conception of death, then printed it in plaster on the z510 to live on in our display case. The creases of fabric and detail of the face and delicate fingers show the capability of the 3D printer to produce finely tuned, sensitive features. The final piece was eventually …